Prophet Song
- Winner of the Booker Prize 2023
- Winner of the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize
- Shortlisted for the an post Irish book of the year 2023
- Shortlisted for the Strega European prize
- A Sunday Times bestseller
- A New York Times editor’s choice
- An Amazon TOP 10 book of December 2023
A Book of the Year for 2023 according to the Guardian, FT, Irish Independent, Irish Examiner, Sunday Independent, Economist, Big Issue, Daily Telegraph, Irish Times and Waterstones
A crucial book for our current times… brilliantly haunting, — Observer
The explosive literary sensation: a mother faces a terrible choice as Ireland slides into totalitarianism
On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, Larry, a trade unionist.
Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling. Soon, she must decide just how far she is willing to go to keep her family safe.
Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Paul Lynch’s Booker Prize-winning novel is a devastating vision of a country falling apart and a moving portrait of the resilience of the human spirit when faced with the darkest of times.
A compassionate, propulsive and timely novel that forces the reader to imagine — what if this was me?, — FT
